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| Contact: Mary Anna Brown Public Relations Coordinator (615) 256-6619 ext. 120 maryannab@adtecinc.com |
| April 26, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
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NASHVILLE, TN – Bye-Net Wireless of St. Johns, Newfoundland successfully tested service delivery across their wind-powered ISP network with an Adtec Digital edje-2000 MPEG 2 streaming encoder and an edje-1010 set-top-box. "The video quality was stunning," Project Manager, Patrick DeBourke, said. "Nobody is going to believe the video was encoded as MPEG 2 at full D1 resolution with a data rate of 3.5 Mb/s." Bye-Net provides internet and VoIP services to a handful of rural subscribers. Sited on a nearby mountain, the access point operates with power from a 1500 watt wind turbine. "Bye-Net wanted to see what was possible," Project Manager, Patrick DeBourke, said. "We connected a DVD player at the network center to Adtec's edje-2000 and pressed play. On an IP set-top-box located 17 miles away in a rural community, the picture appeared." By eventually adding three or four premium channels, Triple Play services offer a source of future revenue streams from Bye-Net's growing subscriber base. "Triple Play services with Adtec encoders is a viable technology," Adtec Sales Engineer, Michael Bush, said. "IP stream shaping on the edje-2000 eliminates video jitter. By controlling the stream, it reduces buffering on the IP set-top-box and improves delivery over hybrid Ethernet/ATM networks." "Bye-Net demonstrates how a Triple Play network can be deployed in rural locations worldwide with wind-powered and off-the-shelf equipment." Patrick DeBourke has over twenty years experience in Telecommunications including work for Nortel Networks, MCI Worldcom, Grove Telecommunications, Nord Systems and Bell Canada. DeBourke can be contacted at pdebourke@roadrunner.nf.net. Adtec Digital is a world-leading manufacturer of professional MPEG 2 based solutions including decoders, encoders, multiplexers, commercial insertion systems and digital cable headends. For more information about Adtec and their products, visit www.adtecinc.com. |